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FLAT CAB.

(Application filed Aug. 27, 1900.)

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FLAT CAR.

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Nrrnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

IIUMPHREY .I. KIELY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE LINK-BELT ENGINEERING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLAT-CAR.

ePEG-IFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 661,878, dated November 13, 1900. Application filed. August 27, 1900. Serial No. 28,241. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern: gear, except that it shall be of the open-sided Be it known that I, HUMP-HREY J. KIELY, a fiat-car type suitable for the carrying of canes. citizen of the United States of America, re- In the particular form shown in the draw- 50 siding in the city of New York, borough of ings the body A of the car is mounted to run Brook1yn,county of Kings,State of New York, upon wheeled trucks B in any suitable way, have invented Improvements in Flat-Cars, of and along the sides of the flat body A are suitwhich the following is a specification. able sockets D D for the reception of posts In the harvesting of sugar-cane on large E E, which may be removable. The floor of 55 plantations it-is the usual practice to load the the car is in this case formed of a series of 1o canes onto fiat-cars in the fields for transportransverse battens F F-say three inches tation to the crushing plant, where the canes square and spaced three inches apartso as are unloaded into the chute of the conveyer to leave transverse grooves f f between the leading to the crushing-rolls. In order that battens extending through from one side of 60 these canes may be conveniently handled and the car to the other. The canes are piled up I5 quickly unloaded from the cars, chains are on this floor of the car lengthwise of the car placed around big bundles of canes, so that and held in place by the posts E E. When a at the crushing plant hoisting-tackle may be loaded car reaches the crushing plant, an at connected to the chains encircling the buntendant takes a long iron rod R with a hooked 5 dies to lift the latter out of the car and dump end and by its aid pushes a bundling-chain C,

the canes into the chute. These bundling- Fig. 2, through one of the transverse grooves chains are in the first instance laid across the ff and hooks it around the canes G. In the floors of the cars on the field and the canes same way other chains are put around the are piled on top until the car is loaded,where loads of canes on the car at the crushing 70 upon the chains are hooked up over the canes. plant, and then by means of hoisting-tackle This practice means that on a large plantathe bundles of canes are lifted off the cars tion a thousand or two thousand of these and dumped into the chute. chains will be required, involving consider- I claim as my invention able outlay, and as they have to be carried 1. A flat-car for sugar-cane, 850., provided 75 backward and forward between the fields and with side posts and having grooves in the the crushing plant many of the chains get floor of the car extending through from side lost and mislaid. To avoid this and to perto side of the car and adapted for the passage mit the use of a small supply of such chains of bundling-chains under the loaded canes, and that at the crushing plant only, I so consubstantially as described. 80. struct the cars that the chains can be placed 2. A flat-car for sugar-cane, &c., provided around the loads of canes while on the cars. with side posts and having a floor formed of For this purpose I construct or provide the transverse battens spaced to leave grooves floor of the car with transverse battens so extending through from side to side of thespaced as to leave large enough grooves or car for the passage of bundling-chains under 85 openings to pass chains between pairs of the the loaded canes, substantially as described.

battens and under the load of canes, asI will In testimony whereof I have signed my now describe. name to this specification in the presence of Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is two subscribing witnesses. a longitudinal side view of sufficient of a fiatcar to illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a HUMPHREY KIELY' transverse section on the line 2 2, Fig. l. Witnesses:

The car may be of any suitable construc- SARAH CARSON CONNOR, tion as to its main structure and running- HUBERT HOWSON. 

